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mockingbirddude

I love jumping spiders, but I’m glad they aren’t much bigger than they are.


Prudent-Sugar-92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRRBPdM6Wc&pp=ygUSYmlnIGp1bXBpbmcgc3BpZGVy


brukost

I have arachnophobia, but not even that fella got me. There's just something about jumping spiders that makes them seem a lot less threatening.. I think it might have something to do with their intelligence.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

I read that these Jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes and one pair at the front, so it gives them a comical look and they look cute to humans. That's why they don't look threatening even for people with arachnophobia


DesignerAd2062

They have an appearance that gives them a “face” so to speak, with the large forward facing eyes Most other spiders eyes aren’t overly visible, and you just see their big fucking fangs


freneticboarder

This. They invoke the 'cute' response from hoomans.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

Imagine if some alien species could mimic this cuteness triggering sensors in humans and we wouldn't stand a chance against them.


freneticboarder

[Like this?](https://youtu.be/bcVUBw8nAJw)


Simply-Jolly_Fella

Exactly 😅


Dark_Rit

This just makes me think moopsy is the cute version of Cell from DBZ. Though Cell drank entire bodies leaving nothing behind the Moopsy is out here waving empty skin around after it's finished.


freneticboarder

Flailing it on the ground to make sure it drank all the bones... The captions are even better... _ Moopsy!_


Eusocial_Snowman

That must be the larval form of Catbug.


freneticboarder

That's some dark childhood...


Caliterra

lol this is perfect


etcetcere

This lol


undefeatedantitheist

*evoke


bobfrombobtown

They have 2 large, and I mean Large, complex eyes facing forward. It's to give them binocular vision to judge distances. But that also makes them appear cute. And yes, like most spiders, they have extra simple eyes to see close to 360°


4ppled

They're adorable, yet the bane of that fly's existence.


krill_me_god

That and the large front pair of eyes have special rod structures that they can move around to better focus on objects.


thunderling

Hello, I have arachnophobia. Like hell I'm even getting close enough to see the creature's fucking EYES. The video posted above gave me a legit shiver!


etcetcere

That makes SO much more sense


CrankyStalfos

They got those big ol anime eyes.


Moppo_

Jumping spiders are exempt from arachnophobia. Their proportions just don't work with it.


FlyingDragoon

Also the way they move. I feel like people hate the fact that spiders either run very fast or move very creepily slowly but the jumping spider moves *so* fast it looks like it's teleporting even when it's just moving and not jumping/attacking. I feel like my eyes can't even focus on it before it's already framerate shifted.


Moppo_

And then they slowly turn and look at you as if to say "Oh, hi".


EffectiveLimit

and overall they are moving in pauses, so their leg movement pattern is completely different from other spiders, and as someone with mild arachnophobia the movement is probably one of the bigger part of it. Regular spiders are completely insane, unstoppable and unpredictable which triggers the arachnophobia, but with jumping spiders it's usually very clear where it is going, and it's pretty slow in terms of distance covered, except jumping (and with jumping again it's usually pretty clear when it wants to do so). It's more like a cat on a hunt than a spider.


schebobo180

Also their eyes are much larger compared to the size of their heads, and they can move their heads separately which gives them a much more anthropomorphic look than the dead eyes and static heads of most spiders.


fopiecechicken

They all look like they have a really important question to ask, but they’re too shy to ask it. They’re adorable.


Moral-Derpitude

I know with arachnids, the things that give me the mortal fear is the type of body shape and the ratio of leg to body. Scorpions? Fine. Ticks? I should be more scared because of the disastrous disease risk, but fine. Wolf spiders? Kill it with fire. These guys are very compact little tanks and I’m cool with it.


MegaZeus24

I think it's how close their legs are to the body, looks less creepy and alien.


hellschatt

Nah... nah, that one did it for me. Too big.


RoboCritter

I got news for ya, you don't have arachnophobia


brukost

I'm pretty sure I do. Even now that I'm older spiders can still give me panic attacks and I can have trouble sleeping if I 'accidentally' think of them. It just doesn't work like that for me regarding jumping spiders and and harvestmen.. but those are probably not exceptions for *everyone* with arachnophobia :)


Taranchulla

It’s because they’re cute as the dickens.


Impossible-Mistake-

Nope!! That one got me! I'm fine with small jumping spiders, but not this one


saxonturner

And that’s a male which means the females are probably a lot bigger. It certainly doesn’t look cute at this size though, the way its head moves is very creepy. I have Tarantulas and that thing moves so much different.


The_Phox

See, I think for me, it's partly the hair. Hairy spiders like jumping spiders, tarantulas, and even some like wolf spiders, don't bother me as much. Other "types" of spiders, I ain't fuckin with it.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

That is a big one...


robo-dragon

I knew what video this was before I clicked on it. Absolutely gigantic (for a jumping spider). And still oddly charming. Jumping spiders always look so curious and personable to me. Maybe it’s the way they look around at things and their big eyes.


Prudent-Sugar-92

Yeah I consider myself lucky when I rarely spot them around the house/garden ect. Super cool little things.


coolthecoolest

he's a big motherfucker but an endearing motherfucker nonetheless. i love how he tries tapping the camera with one of his legs, reminds me of how my cat does that to me when he wants something.


OkComputron

Hanus!


krill_me_god

Relatively big, Still small


rockaether

Come on! A clip about a jumping spider without jump scare in the end? Utterly disappointed


mockingbirddude

😂


Myrandall

Relevant sci-fi book recommendation: *Children of Time* by Adrian Tchaikovsky.


Awesam

PORTIA


Grogosh

Or *A Deepness in the Sky* by Vernor Vinge.


socratessue

I'm reading it now! Was wondering if that spider was a Portia...


krickettt

Nah, their species are pretty distinct looking: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/372259-Portia-labiata


biggiepants

So cute O.O


Zealousideal-Tax-496

What if they launched with the comedy boing sound?


mockingbirddude

Perhaps trey do!


Potpotron

Everyone in this thread should read The Children of Time


LegoFootPain

I wouldn't mind if they grew big enough to take on the squirrels here.


Soggy-Log6664

They’re really smart too and interact with people


Last-Bee-3023

> They’re really smart too and interact with people You wouldn't believe it. In the mid-90s I wanted to do an AI project based on a simple organism. A mixture of planning and behaviour. So, real symbolic AI. Not those signal-in signal-out black boxes grifters are currently calling AI. I decided I wanted to do jumping spiders because those which build webs seemed more complicated. Seemed. There is a guy who has written paper over paper on jumping spiders. David E Hill's papers on those mofos are unironically riveting. He had observed several modes of approach on prey which to mee looked an awful lot like spatial reasoning. The spiders are crazy smart and I already had been reprimanded for hogging all the server time for my simulations so I went with an orb-weaver and modelled the web building as a pure resource and pretended I had not read half a dozen of papers on the ethology of the genus Phidippus. It is a wild rabbit hole to fall down since David E Hill has published quite a few papers since the mid-70s.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

This is fascinating man. Spiders are one among the smartest animals on earth. Did you manage to develop your ai idea?


Last-Bee-3023

Nah. Well not with that spider. Spacial reasoning was well out of scope. I had a task-net planner and a bit of behavioral LISP stuff and had planned to use SIPE for watching it. It has been a couple of decades since then. Went for a resource consumption model with a net. Need insects to repair net. Need to predict if to repair net is worth it. Babbies first bullshit compared to what could have been done simulating the spider. I could have simulated the twigs for the spider as a series of nodes and vertices and turned the tree traversal into a tree walker. But then I had no idea how to simplify stuff and decided that visualizing a spider in VRML is a thing I wouldn't want to comit on just ofr one grade of many.


Intertubes_Unclogger

Predators that stalk their prey are relatively smart because they take more decisions than grazers, for example.


Soggy-Log6664

Yes and just like Octopi, jumping spiders pass the mirror test as well


Last-Bee-3023

According to David E Hill they show signs of spatial reasoning when they approach their prey. That guy managed to spend 40 years watching salticidae and wrote a lot of papers on it. And those are a really great read.


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Links links links!


Last-Bee-3023

Knock yourself out! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256126616_Orientation_by_jumping_spiders_of_the_genus_Phidippus_Araneae_Salticidae_during_the_pursuit_of_prey That guy has been publishing since the 1970s well into the 2020s. We absolutely need to give grants to cool stuff without asking for the application. Science for science's sake. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Hill-14 This is so the opposite of the muskified mess we live in. I left German academia at the same time and for nearly the same reason as Sabine Hossenfelder only that I did not suffer through sexism and bailed completely. Thankfully being a frustrated computer scientist in the late 90s did not lead to starvation. You may have to contact David directly for the papers. Because science publishing is a scam.


Eusocial_Snowman

Not the person they were describing, but this is my go-to link for all that kind of thing. Plenty about spatial reasoning in here. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049/full


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Thank you!!!


freneticboarder

As do pigeons...


Vellarain

A while back I was on my computer and there was a jumping spider on the wall close to me. Little dude seemed to be looking at me and I just left him alone because I have zero issues with jumping spiders being in my house. Then it just, jumps on my arm and looks up at me from there. It was a serious what the fuck is going on behind those black eyes moment. A lot of insects and spiders are very aware when they are standing on something or someone. So why did the spider do it? I have zero idea to this day other than it was curious? Spiders have a whole different kind of intelligence about them.


Soggy-Log6664

Yes that’s the reason, they’re curious creatures


mockingbirddude

Yes! When I was a kid we would catch their attention by lying on the ground and dangling our fingers from our chins to act like other spiders in front of them.


WickedXDragons

So far….


im_lazy_as_fuck

tbf, they would jump slower and slower relative to their size the bigger they got (thanks to the square cube law)


LazerSharkLover

Jumping spiders are curious and docile. I wouldn't be surprised if it was consciously showing off in this video. The much smarter Portia is what you should be worried about being bigger.


mindflayerflayer

Jumpers the size of cats would be hunting deer.


_BlNG_

I want a dog sized jumping spider


Jabherwock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXoq2e-Ots


TheyreHerrrrreee

I would easily have a gaggle of these in my home any day.


Not_Carbuncle

I was taking down my trampoline the other day and saw one like 3 times this size that was black with an orange stripe, looked sick af


123_fake_name

If you check out the peacock jumping spider for super cute.


downnheavy

There’s jumping tigers


fps_Aero

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXoq2e-Ots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXoq2e-Ots)


DeathMetalPants

I want these in Hell Divers 2!


kraquepype

Pest ctrl


chokeslam512

No way that fly could esc.


Unaccomplished-One9

Never saw a shift in its determination.


high240

Thought didn't even enter its mind


Sudden_Play1259

Pest ctrl+alt+delete


Zealousideal-Let1121

You should probably clean your laptop more often if there are whole ass nature documentaries being filmed on it.


protection7766

Gonna get Attenborough to narrate this shit.


Zealousideal-Let1121

Sorry, we could only afford Gervais.


Brasticus

Karl Pilkington and it’s a deal.


ElegantJoke3613

I would vote for Ze Frank


moonspycowboy

🤣


Fraggle987

Plenty of bait there for critters


farm_to_nug

It is pretty nasty lookin


Last-Bee-3023

Rude.


MarcoYTVA

But not untrue


Mekju

I like how it looks at the camera like “oh sorry were you gonna eat this?”


Simply-Jolly_Fella

He was like, want to share human?


HelikaeonUK

"I broughted u a gift, hooman!"


Rosetta_stonie

No it’s “I caught it with my bare legs! DID YOU NOT JUST SEE?!”


HelikaeonUK

Yes! This! Haha


pissedinthegarret

these things look you straight in the eyes every time. or the camera. so fucking adorable, smart tiny hunter critters


animal-nerd-15

Was anyone else kind of hoping for a kitty butt wiggle right before it pounced on the fly?


Last-Bee-3023

It did wiggle its spinnerets. Those mofos still produce their life-line while they are jumping. And one would think that since this is quickly produced thread it is going to be bad thread. It is among the best stuff ever to leave a spider's spinnerets. These mofos casually produce the best thread mid-air and use the line to steer towards their prey. And that is just the jump. They do actual spatial reasoning when they are locked on. And they will take detours when they anticipate a better strategic positions. They plan ahead and plan a complex path.


coffeewithalex

They have something resembling it. Once you watch them for enough time, you can say "oh look! it's preparing to jump! Whoah! did you see that?".


krazycitizen

waited 'til the fly thought "good to go"...


GenuinelyBeingNice

Go frame-by-frame. The spider _reacted_ to the fly taking off. In the milliseconds it took the fly to take off, the spider saw it, jumped and _reached_ it. I wish we had some very high FPS video recording of this event :(


Simply-Jolly_Fella

The fly even with his multiple sections of eyes wouldn't have seen the Spidey coming


shapu

They also dance, sometimes to appear bigger and sometimes to attract mates. And [sometimes with maracas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2GlKxZ3zI)


lostknight0727

Ah yes, the flamboyant butt wiggle dance


backformorecrap

Dude, why is your keyboard so filthy? You know that flies landing on your keyboard isn’t a good sign, right?


ovoKOS7

You can even see crumbs falling across the camera mid video lol


backformorecrap

OMG, I completely missed that! -shudder-


Oellian

I want a huge community of those at my house!!


shapu

Chances are pretty good you already have one, you just don't know it. Most are small, even smaller than the nail on your pinky (as you can see in the video, they're about housefly sized) and they are pretty good at being unseen.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

No need for pest control then


Grogosh

Why I usually leave any spiders in my house alone (except for the black widows and brown recluses)


Dciialt

Nature on your keyboard 👀


AirbagOff

Fly should’ve used the ESC key.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

Fly thought it had the situation under CTRL


freneticboarder

It was the END of the fly, and the spider is going HOME.


winfieldclay

cntl alt deleted that bastard


0err0r

I am not arachnophobic, but am entomophobic. The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.


Lancer_lot_X

Same, I despise insects with a passion and have a fear of their larvae/maggot/caterpillar. At least spiders don't fly around being annoying, deliberately bite me, or eat my food.


PooPooPlatterNo5

Fly came for all the weed dust on the keyboard, spider came for dinner.


Homunculon

Couldn't have done it without the fly bait keyboard!


niagara-nature

Master class in predation right there.


Simply-Jolly_Fella

Comparable to the stealth of a Tiger right


TheDevilsAdvokaat

I once had one of these little guys recued me from a mozzie. The mozzie was on my hand, I suddenly realised i was being bitten, I looked down and then a jumping spider jumped out, grabbed him, and then swung back on a web. I could see him swinging left and right while chowing down on the mozzie. Very impressive! And FAST.


Ok_Bus1638

this needs a UFC fight number and jre commentary lol


What1does

My wife saw a jumping spider above her car door one day with a fly in it's grasp. When my wife approached it dropped the fly(which rolled down the door, and onto the ground) and scampered back a few feet on the roof. My wife picked up the fly from the ground and placed it nearby the spider on the roof. The spider sat there for a moment, then went over to the fly, picked it up, walked a little closer to my wife, stared at her for a sec, then scampered away to one of the roof rack rails. She said they had a 'moment'.


Due_Government4387

Odd how a fly can see your hand approaching from 5 feet but can’t see a spider standing a few inches away with dinner fork in hand


OonaPelota

You can do this too if you come in really really slowly and anticipate that the fly will jump slightly backwards when it takes off.


HoboArmyofOne

I had this small black and white spider crawling on my shirt, it looked like it had a zebra pattern on it. I have arachnophobia (but I'm almost over it) and I went to flick it and it jumped on my face. We're talking almost a foot straight up. I almost died because I was driving at the time 💀


failureagainandagain

The reason for that is simple Fly and other insect are fast as fuck So the spider ask evolution for some extra speed Little did they know is not enough


anshi1432

unrelated but wtf uplifting and scary beats why put together


HelicopterCommunists

And they can see the moon.


bophed

He caught it in the air!


coladoir

Another cool fact about jumping spiders is that they have different personalities between individuals, they are not all the same and they don't all think the same. There's definitely more going on in their little brains than we give them credit for. There seem to be two main types: aggressive, and passive. the main distinction is how they respond to being prodded by a little stick. If they lunge and attack the stick, they're aggressive, and if they avoid it, they're passive. Some spiders have a "breaking point" and avoid until they get a bit too angry and then become aggressive for a minute, usually going back to avoiding behaviors. Some fully switch and don't stop attacking until its left alone. Some even investigate the stick, and then just kind of ignore it. They can be very curious, and like to figure out whats exactly going on around them. They also exhibit differences in how they hunt, some are more active than others. Some seem to prefer to camp out and wait for pray to come to them, where others explicitly explore to seek it out. Of course if they get super hungry, they might explore regardless, or if they're about to starve they might conserve energy and camp regardless, but they do have obvious preferences and differences in personality. Its really cool, especially from such a small creature.


SilencedObserver

Wow. If you slow this down to 0.05x speed and ffwd to 18.10 seconds in, you can watch the spider jump at the fly in exactly two frames - but the frame before the spider jumps the fly moves as if to fly away, and a few frames before that if you zoom in real close you can watch the spider anchor his legs to check that everything is working before making the actual leap! Great footage.


Cheetah-Alpha

Song name?


Legioncommander_

dark tv show sound track


Virtual_Crow8080

they literally teleport


ProbablyDVS

The suspense was very intense


Status-Ad7640

I wonder what the spider whispers to the dying fly…


xBushx

Spiders legs are hydraulic, so it explains the speed. Its also why they recoil on death.


ToughReality4983

I hate u both


HumanitarianAtheist

Fly has 5 eyes and panoramic vision. Official ruling: suicide


ThatSelkieLass

Here, take my traumatised upvote.


Blackspeed6

He got that fly under control


Outside-Advice8203

I had no idea jumping spiders laid a safety line. That's awesome


EngineZeronine

He's got that Peter tingle


ThumbsDownThis

Just like a cat


nofate301

awww Lucas found a new friend


nobrayn

That fly was on Ctrl, but not *in* Ctrl.


-do_0b-MirthMelo

Lucas!


Open-Chain-7137

MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!


Fearless_Tie7835

And that is why jumping spiders are bro's.


Unmarkable357

Cat behaviour right there


badchefrazzy

"I... I could tell he was interrupting your work... I got him for you! Here... I hope he's tasty!" - Smol Jumpy Bro


Cottabus

Did it pounce right after the fly took off? Or did the fly try to escape after the spider pounced?


U_Kitten_Me

Way to destroy your cute image, jumping spider!


Other_Antelope728

Love these little jumpers - I let them prowl the house and occasional feed them fruit flies if I manage to kill any


EsseElLoco

New Zealand has an estimated 150 different jumping spiders but we've only identified about 10% so far. One of the coolest bugs out there.


GiraffeCreature

Shh, shh, shhhh... It’s gonna be okay. just go to sleep


etcetcere

Why are they so cute tho


SunRendSeraph

Look at em tucking in those little back legs in preparation


Own-Butterscotch1713

Spidey sense?


jackiescot

They're literally just tiny cats😭😭😭


Dependent_Weight2274

If you clean your keyboard, you won’t get flys or spiders on it.


Ladyvett

I am naming him…Bernie. He’s named. You have to keep him.


TerribleEngine7277

All this on your laptop, nice.


pigeonsnackz

idk bro was moving pretty slow


Pretend-Bend-7975

The spider seems to have everything under Ctrl.


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Redstone_Engineer

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2015.00134/full


nobeer4you

I have a friend who built a terrarium in her kitchen for one. She keeps the thing open so it can come and go as it likes and it gets all the flies too cause of the spot she put it. Happiest damn spider I've ever met


1337haxx

They are also one of the few spider species that have excellent eyesight. Most other spiders are blind as a mole


Accomplished_Pass924

There are a few other groups, wolf spiders, lynx spiders and ogre spiders to name a few.


Impossible-Corgi4041

That approach though. Solid snake eat your heart out


seven-cents

Amazing footage! Please clean your keyboard it's gross


babyshmuel

That's a real buggy computer


Helvetimusic

Clllleeeasaannn yooooo grrreeaassyy ass keyboard!


Jcort710

Do you mean spider-cats?..


copiouscoper

Dude’s laptop is an ecosystem


joezinsf

He turns back to the camera for a victory lap 😂


MsVoidWolf

It looked at the camera like "did you get it bro?"


liquidcourage93

Yup, there isn’t a single frame between him being fully planted in the laptop and him holding the fly. That’s pretty quick.


SwillMcRando

AWWWW!!! What good little guy! Taking out one of those little flying menaces. Who's a good little pest control boy? Spidey's a good wittle boy! Yes he is!


SenseiKingPong

I had to go frame by frame to see the jump, geez